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The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 3)
by Anne Rice

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 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12151041?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 2 of 5 stars So far, this book retreads the other books, but sadly, it jumps from first person perspective between many different vampires, kind of losing the personability of the first two books. Also, some of the more minor characters are hard to care for, and you really feel like skipping their whole section whenever they come up. 
 The suspension of disbelief is a bit hard in this book as well, when Lestat becomes a rock star. It just seems a little silly to imagine him in Marilyn Manson fashion and somehow taking over the world with his music and videos.
 
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 I have no finished this book, and I have to say that it ended up being a little better towards the end. The middle story was to build up a huge back story for "The Twins", who are two witches who were made into vampires at nearly the same time as the queen of the damned and her husband. It does feel a bit like Anne Rice was just trying to give some weight to the ultimate and expected ending by creating this back story of how the vampires were truly created.
 
 I did enjoy the ending, and everyone ending up together for a little while, but I do think this book is not nearly as good as the first two, and Interview is a masterpiece in my opinion.
 
 Why? Well, the first book was very mysterious, and seemed more plausible. These books go a little too far I think and lose their suspension of disbelief.
 
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So far, this book retreads the other books, but sadly, it jumps from first person perspective between many different vampires, kind of losing the personability of the first two books. Also, some of the more minor characters are hard to care for, and you really feel like skipping their whole section whenever they come up.
The suspension of disbelief is a bit hard in this book as well, when Lestat becomes a rock star. It just seems a little silly to imagine him in Marilyn Manson fashion and somehow taking over the world with his music and videos.

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I have no finished this book, and I have to say that it ended up being a little better towards the end. The middle story was to build up a huge back story for "The Twins", who are two witches who were made into vampires at nearly the same time as the queen of the damned and her husband. It does feel a bit like Anne Rice was just trying to give some weight to the ultimate and expected ending by creating this back story of how...more

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message 1: by Jess

01/18/2008 06:56AM

I actually really liked this one, but I agree with you about the Lestat back story. She had created this beautiful, dark character in the earlier books and now he is kind of an angst-ridden teenager?